Value-driven Business Issues
The Opportunity Analyzer tool is a stand-alone software application by Lawson that supports an advanced management consulting service which allows senior management of a company to address the following value-driven business issues:
- Business managers have a gut feeling about how the company can become more profitable, but find it difficult to quantify.
Opportunity Analyzer optimizes business processes by turning strategic business objectives into detailed, quantified operational targets.
- There are hundreds of opportunities to improve company performance, but which four or five are likely to be the most profitable?
Opportunity Analyzer enables opportunities to be ranked by business value. The higher the PDP rating, the higher the financial returns over a given time scale.
- How can improvement initiatives be created that are in line with the company’s strategic objectives?
Opportunity Analyzer has a top-down approach that encompasses a high level of detail, as well as allocates costs to individual activities. As a result, Opportunity Analyzer demonstrates how each improved process activity contributes to the overall strategic objectives.
- The CFO has financial budgeting tools but none that target non-financial metrics such as lead times, delivery performance and costs per order line.
Opportunity Analyzer focuses both on financial and operational metrics that increase a company’s competitive edge driven by shorter lead times, improved delivery performance, and lower costs per order line.
- How can business processes be benchmarked so that the company uses best practice?
Many business process templates are synchronized with the Supply Chain Council’s SCOR model, which has become the international standard. These are linked with KPIs and best practices that have been benchmarked for key industries.
- How can the company ensure it focuses its IT efforts on the issues that really drive profitability?
Opportunity Analyzer is an efficient communications tool and bridges the gap between the IT department and business executives.
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